compare

It is very hard to not compare our adoption story with other DRC adoption stories. I love to read blogs, see pictures, read timelines. Sometimes it is smiles, sometimes it is sadness, some timelines are LONG, some are short, and I consider ours to be "average".
I was just reading a blog from a wonderful woman who is adopting three DRC children, one being a much older sibling that they didn't know existed until they went to the orphanage, and they noticed a bond between the two younger children they were adopting and an older girl. When asking the orphanage they found out the children had the sister, and the information was not given to them because she was so old it was assumed she was too old to be adopted. She is 11! How terribly sad to think that once a child is no longer "little and cute" that they are just forgotten, and left to sit in the orphanage until they age out and then released to the streets. It truly breaks my heart, and crazily enough it makes me have serious conversations with God about adopting again in 10 years or so- that much older child who will blend in with our then older children... I can't predict the future, yet I know that the future still holds millions of older children still longing for a family to call their own.

Another blog I was reading a timeline. Received their I600 approval and kids were home in 3 months, just ONE month after receiving the passports. Oh how I pray this is close to our time line! It is truly getting close, and I know I am not ready. I will never be ready.

One final mention of a blog (that are all written so much more masterfully than my own!) where the soon to be adoptive mother talks of God as the pilot, the wind, and the parachute, as we are stepping off the ledge and jumping into the unknown. So well said!!

Trust in God. He holds the reigns and we can do nothing but hold on tight! And pray for all those others who are on similar journeys.